#media-history tag

CBS News Radio Is Shuttering After Nearly 100 Years

CBS News Radio will cease operations in May after nearly 100 years, amid layoffs affecting 6% of the news team.

Reminiscing About Meeting (and Dating!) Movie Stars From Hollywood's Golden Age - San Francisco Bay Times

A TV and radio broadcaster shares memorable encounters with celebrities who visited to promote their work, highlighting humorous and authentic moments from interviews.

fromBrooklyn Eagle

2 weeks ago

Back to the Past: When media was all opinion, all the time

Back then, news didn't break unless the town crier tripped over his own words. There were no "breaking reports," no special election coverage, no bickering pundits crammed into a single screen. News traveled so slowly that it took more than six months for word to spread across the thirteen colonies that the Revolutionary War was over.

Brooklyn

NYC parents

fromNew York Family

3 weeks ago

Paley Museum Partners with NYC DSS for Free EBT Admission

The Paley Museum offers free admission to EBT cardholders through a partnership with NYC Department of Social Services, with the first 1,400 sign-ups receiving free family memberships.

Public health

fromKnight Foundation

3 weeks ago

Public broadcasting: Its past and its future

Public broadcasters remain essential democratic institutions requiring reinvestment despite decades of underfunding, designed to inform citizens and build socially cohesive societies.

Music

fromFast Company

1 month ago

This classic MTV website goes where Netflix dare not venture

MTV's last music-only stations closed December 31, 2025, but online services like MTV Rewind recreate the vintage music-video TV experience.

Media industry

fromNieman Lab

3 months ago

The rise of the throwaway news app

AI revival will enable new, cost-effective news apps akin to mid-2000s data-driven web apps, overcoming prior infrastructure and maintenance barriers.

Film

fromThe New Yorker

3 months ago

How "The New Yorker at 100" Got to Netflix

Documentary 'The New Yorker at 100' chronicles the magazine's century, editorial processes, landmark stories, and cultural influence across decades.

Graphic design

fromPoynter

3 months ago

Poynter's logo almost looked very different. Here's how we landed on the dot. - Poynter

Poynter Institute's enduring logo evolved from an MMI T-shirt joke to a Mario Garcia redesign embodying the letters P and I after the institute's renaming.

Media industry

fromwww.independent.co.uk

3 months ago

Andreas Whittam Smith death: Co-founder of The Independent, dies aged 88

The Independent funds on-the-ground, non-paywalled journalism covering issues like reproductive rights, climate and media, while honoring co-founder Andreas Whittam Smith's legacy.

Digital life

fromThe Atlantic

4 months ago

You're Getting 'Screen Time' Wrong

Screen time functions as the defining tempo of contemporary life and cannot be fully controlled merely by reducing device hours.

Philosophy

fromNature

5 months ago

Technology leaders should 'pay back' society to support the common good

Communication technologies and algorithms must be designed and used to preserve and promote the common good across physical and digital spheres.

fromSan Francisco Bay Times

8 months ago

PBS and the Evolution of LGBTQ+ Rights - San Francisco Bay Times

The first television documentary about homosexuality broadcast in the U.S. was The Rejected, which initially aired on KQED TV in San Francisco on September 11, 1961.

SF LGBT

fromMission Local

8 months ago

Future housing

Local news has long been integral to my career, starting from the Albuquerque Tribune to various desks at The New York Times, and I’m still invested in its sustainability.

NYC politics

fromInverse

8 months ago

87 Years Later, The Most Iconic Superhero Secret Identity Still Holds True

In Superman II, Christopher Reeve's Clark gives up his powers to live as a human, showing Clark Kent as physically separate from Superman's body, highlighting a unique duality.

Film

Podcast

fromwww.mediaite.com

9 months ago

NPR Had an In-House Cocaine Dealer, According to Wild New Tell-All

NPR's early years were marked by a liberated culture, with experiments in journalism contextually intertwined with casual drug use and sexual relationships.

fromThe New Yorker

9 months ago

Can Public Media Survive Trump?

The Municipal News was created as a response to the dissatisfaction with commercial media's 'clickbait' and 'fake news', aiming to reflect genuine public interest.

US politics

Parenting

fromThe Atlantic

10 months ago

Seven Weekend Reads

Focus on raising kind children rather than just successful ones to foster a more compassionate generation.

AI's growing role in the job market poses risks for college graduates.

fromThe New Yorker

10 months ago

Why I Can't Quit the New York Post

Maybe I'm simply interested in that voice, that loud, familiar soundâthe demotic tone, the direct address, the sense of a great organ yelling into power's ear and being overheard everywhere.

UK news

Media industry

fromThe Verge

10 months ago